HDFGroup
HDFView Linux installer needs to work on headless machine
Our installation/distribution process is automated--it needs to run on a system without human interaction and thus doesn't have access to an X-windows display. We need a process which is strictly command-line and doesn't require attention. That doesn't appear to be the case with recent releases.
Furthermore the immediate installation directory is a staging directory and will not be the final path once the code is distributed to the hosts in the cluster. I'm not sure if this matters to HDFView because I haven't been able to test the install that far, but if it does the distinction needs to be made.
There are two versions of HDFView - one with an installer and one that is just the application image. The second one should work for you.
Thank you. I see a reference on an The HDF Group web page which mentions the application image and a 'provided executable', however it isn't clear to me how to translate it into a successful install. In the file:
HDFView-3.1.4-ubuntu2004_64.tar.gz
I see:
> tar ztf ~/src/HDFView-3.1.4-ubuntu2004_64.tar.gz
COPYING
README.txt
hdfview_3.1.4-1_amd64.deb
There is no executable as described on the web page. What am I missing?
There should be a file with HDFViewApp-3.1.4-xxxx. However, just noticed that it is missing. The next release, HDFView-3.3.0, should release next week and that will have an AppImage version.